A woman has alleged that former Progressive Labour Party MP Delaey Robinson cracked her tooth while trying to evict her from a residential apartment without a court order.

Salina Trott, of Old Maid's Lane, St. George's, said the alleged assault took place when Mr. Robinson was trying to toss her belongings into the front garden of her apartment yesterday afternoon.

Later, Mr. Robinson admitted that the situation did become “undignified”, although he denied hitting Ms Trott.

But he did admit that Police were called to the scene following a complaint from his tenant.

And he also later agreed that the property was still classed as a residential unit and he therefore had no legal right to try and force her out.

“Oh God, no,” he said, “If I had broke a tooth then I think she would have at least said ‘ow'.

“I agree that it very much lacked dignity, but no one was knocking each other's teeth out.”

Ms Trott's shares the apartment with her mother, who is blind in one eye, partially sighted in the other. Her two children, aged ten and four years-old, have been living with their fathers but do visit on weekends.

After living in her car for a time Ms Trott moved into Mr. Robinson's Aunt Nea's Inn guest house before moving into one of his nearby residential apartments in March.

Adamant that she pays her rent on time, she told The Royal Gazette that her world was turned upside down when she found out Mr. Robinson was trying to force her out.

Although she admitted that Mr. Robinson gave her a month's notice at the beginning of May, she paid an additional two weeks rent at the beginning of June and was told she could continue living in the apartment on a week-to week basis.

But yesterday afternoon, Mr. Robinson turned up at the apartment with a locksmith who removed the lock.

Ms Trott, who has been living in the property for just over three months, confirmed that she and her mother stayed in the house last night, but added: “Mr. Robinson warned us that he would put us out tomorrow (Wednesday).”

“I refuse to live in my car again. How many people don't pay their rent? I am doing what I am supposed to do.”

“I have been searching for a place to call my own for years.

“When the children are here they can play in the front and back yards. I thought I finally had a place. When they first offered it to me, I asked them if I could I really stay (there) because I didn't want them to tell me a few months down the road that I had to get out because they wanted to use it as a guest house.

“Mr. Robinson told me that as long as I paid my rent, I could continue to rent the apartment. I rented it on a month by month basis.”

Yesterday Mr. Robinson at first insisted that the apartment was classed as a tourist accommodation.

“This property is a tourist accommodation, one Government department has obviously not relayed the information to another, but this is not a residential unit,” he said.

“It is a hotel situation, not a rental situation and you don't know the story. Everybody is free to believe what they want to believe, but what people believe is not always the truth.”

But when contacted by The Royal Gazette yesterday, Rent Commissioner Eugene Foley said the property was not listed as a tourist accommodation but was registered as a residential unit.

Mr. Foley said: “He (Mr. Robinson) will have to serve her with a notice to quit and then take her to court to evict her.

“If the property was registered as a tourist accommodation then the woman would have no legal rights, but as it stands, she is classed as a tenant.”

And last night Mr. Robinson said he had contacted the Departments of Planning and Tourism, who confirmed that the apartments were classed as guest apartments, but it was up to him to inform the Rent Commissioner.

Last night Police media relations officer Dwayne Caines was unable to comment on the incident.